Mans opportunity, according to an old asian proverb. And that certainly applies to europes migration crisis at the moment. As thousands of refugees continue to flow northwards fleeing the bloody conflicts in their home countries peoplesmugglers are taking advantage of them at every turn. The most ruthless among them are in bulgaria. The traffickers there draw on decades of experience, smuggling drugs and other goods between europe and turkey. And now theyve turned their attention to humans, demanding thousands of euros to take them to the town of vidin, on bulgarias border with serbia. In this exclusive report for focus on europe, dws paul tutsek tracked down a peoplesmuggler in the capital sofia, to get an inside view of whats going on. Bulgarias capital sofia is one of the hubs for smuggling routes into europe. We have to use a hidden camera. It shows them unloading their human cargo right under the noses of the law. Its a business worth billions of euros enough to pay off Police Off
An old asian proverb. And that certainly applies to europes migration crisis at the moment. As thousands of refugees continue to flow northwards fleeing the bloody conflicts in their home countries peoplesmugglers are taking advantage of them at every turn. The most ruthless among them are in bulgaria. The traffickers there draw on decades of experience, smuggling drugs and other goods between europe and turkey. And now theyve turned their attention to humans, demanding thousands of euros to take them to the town of vidin, on bulgarias border with serbia. In this exclusive report for focus on europe, dws paul tutsek tracked down a peoplesmuggler in the capital sofia, to get an inside view of whats going on. Bulgarias capital sofia is one of the hubs for smuggling routes into europe. We have to use a hidden camera. It shows them unloading their human cargo right under the noses of the law. Its a business worth billions of euros enough to pay off Police Officers and other officials. Of c